Pictures

The Geyer lab (Chris Geyer, Ellen Velte, and Nick Serra) attended the 50th annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction held July 13-16 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.. Chris gave an invited talk, and both Ellen and Nick presented posters on their work.

Chris flew to Hong Kong in June 2017 to speak at the Germinal Stem Cell Biology Gordon Research Conference. This year's focus was on "Programming and Reprogramming the Vertebrate Germline". This is a view of the Hong Kong skyline across from a balcony at Morningside College, the site of the Wednesday night social.

Chris traveled in June to Orofino, ID to speak at the 2017 Annual Center for Reproductive Biology Retreat (Washington State University and University of Idaho). This is a view of the beautiful Clearwater River from the deck of the Hotel Conference Center.

Chris visited the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA in May 2017 to teach in the Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR) course. Pictured in the center, across from Eel Pond, is the Swope Dormitory where faculty and students live and eat during the course.

Another use for Tygon tubing - in a fine art sculpture (?) in the main lobby of the Hilton Miami Downtown, site of the XXIVth North American Testis Workshop. Chris was an invited speaker, and gave a talk entitled "Differential requirements for the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) and mTORC1 component Raptor in spermatogonial development in the mouse". Program chair Leslie Heckert (University of Kansas Medical Center) and vice-chair Vassillios Papadopoulos (USC School of Pharmacy) organized a great meeting!

The lab took a morning field trip in April 2017 to the ECU tennis courts to eat Duck Donuts and watch our two tennis superstars battle it out. Pictured, from L-R: Sasha Kirsanov and Trey Cook.

Chris hanging out with his mentors at the 2016 Gordon Research Conference at the Waterville Valley Resort, N.H. On Chris's right is his Ph.D. advisor, John McCarrey (University of Texas at San Antonio), and on his left is his postdoctoral advisor, Mitch Eddy (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, retired).

Chris taught "Spermatogenesis II" in the 2016 Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR) course at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hole, MA. This is aview of beautiful Eel Pond from just outside the cafeteria...

Watching the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship Game (UNC v. Villanova) in New Orleans at the American Society of Andrology Meeting. Our viewing party includes, from L-R: Tony De Falco (University of Cincinnati), John McCarrey (University of Texas at San Antonio), Summer Goodson, Deborah O'Brien (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Mitch Eddy (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), and Stuart Moss (NIH/NICHD). Not shown is Brian Hermann (University of Texas at San Antonio), the Villanova grad, who was too nervous about the game to be in the picture!

Chris was a speaker at the 2015 Reseau Quebecois en Reproduction (RQR) Symposium in Montreal, Quebec. Shown is Makoto Nagano (McGill University) playing a very small guitar (also called a ukulele). Not shown is Bruce Murphy (University of Montreal), who evidently didn't want to be seen playing a ukulele!? A wonderful trip with a fantastic host (thanks Bruce!).

Celebrating John McCarrey's 2015 Distinguished Service Award at the Society for the Study of Reproduction Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. From L-R: Jon Oatley and Aileen Hensel (Washington State University), Chris Geyer (East Carolina University), and Brian Hermann and John McCarrey (University of Texas at San Antonio).